Now that the holidays are almost here…

I wish you all a joyful and peaceful time. Wherever you are and whatever you celebrate, enjoy time with your family, rest, relax, take some time off and recharge. All the best for the new year. See you in 2012!

(also on YouTube)

The video below is simply an animated version of the photos I posted earlier.

(also on YouTube)

Enjoy!

SketchUp QR from Alexander Schreyer on Vimeo.

As you may have noticed, I have been experimenting with QR codes lately. There’s just so much fun you can have with these little black-and-white icons. For your Friday enjoyment, here is a list of where I have used them so far:

3D QR code

The example video above is simply a vectorized QR code with randomly extruded faces.

T-Shirts

A fun way to say something on a shirt without displaying it as letters. Also a great way to link to your website. It just looks a bit nerdy…

Signage

I realized that there was no good way to link visitors in our building to our departmental website. Therefore, a good-size QR code (filled with a grass pattern) got added to the signage. In the next iteration, I think I’ll make it a little smaller (and also add the URL).

Want to make your own? Just google “QR code” and use any of the free generators out there.

I hope you all are enjoying a wonderful Valentine’s Day today. If you are still in need of a (slightly geeky, I admit) card, then go ahead and use the image above (larger image is here). Check it out with your cellphone and see what it says.

It’s a bit late for a present today, but for fun I recently experiments with QR codes on t-shirts. You can see/get them here:

http://alexschreyer.spreadshirt.com/

Now that the year is almost over, it’s time to step back and look at what we all built over the past weeks…

Wherever you are and whatever you celebrate, enjoy your holidays and some relaxing time with your families. I wish you all the best for the new year!

Cheers,
Alex

P.S.: Yes, it’s another SketchUp Christmas model. This time I had fun using the new solids tools.

Now that the world cup is getting closer by the day, it was time for me to get my gear ready. After all, I have to support Germany in this one. As it turned out, this was also a good opportunity to create some graphics with SketchUp and try out printing them on fabric with Spreadshirt.

Consider this the inauguration of my (mini-) t-shirt shop: If you want to own any of these, just click on the link below and select the perfect color and size for you. The images on this page are just color samples. Spreadshirt has many more colors available – although I would only recommend printing this design on a light-colored t-shirt. I also made a version without the number – that one is a bit more “timeless”. This design and a few others are now available in my Spreadshirt shop. Hope you like them, too.

By the way, I will be posting new designs every once in a while, so keep an eye on the new “shop [as]” link in the site menu on the left.

Link: http://alexschreyer.spreadshirt.com/

The recycled tree

Wherever you are and whatever you celebrate, enjoy your holidays and some relaxing time with your families. I wish you all the best for the new year!

Cheers,
Alex

(FYI: The image was rendered with the fantastic SketchUp rendering software Twilight)

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Colors of fall

Historic House, Sunderland, MA

Orchard at Quonquont Farm

Rich bounty (my favorite)

What could this be?

You can see more of my photograhy on flickr or on my photo page.